The first iteration of legendary Australian rock band AC/DC/ played its first gig on Dec. 31, 1973, in Sydney.

Unimpressed by and distancing themselves from the trappings and demands of the music business, Whiskey Myers are for ...

1974 was the year when the utopian dreams of the sixties finally curdled into a magnificent, decadent reality.

A new year is upon us, and while we don't know yet about all the music that will be coming out during 2026, some albums have ...

LIAM GALLAGHER isn’t planning on putting his feet up for long after the biblical success of Oasis’s reunion tour. I’m told ...

Gary “Mani” Mounfield was central to the Madchester scene and, with The Stone Roses, forever transformed the sound of British rock music.

The country music world has lost some iconic names in 2025, and sadly the list kept on growing in December. As we close out ...

Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and ...

Prologue Rarely had anyone seen Mel Karmazin so angry. Before him on his nearly bare desk, open to a page of dry statistical columns, lay the latest Arbitron ratings. They showed that WKTU, a station ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative ...

Did you get out to any concerts in 2025? I sure hope so. There is no better way to consume music than by seeing and hearing it played live, alongside other people sharing in the same experience and ...

From Pope Francis to Ozzy Osbourne, Dick Cheney to Virginia Giuffre, here's a roll call of some of the influential figures ...